Comments Sparse: E-cigarettes and the Tobacco Farmer

[StormFinch]

http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...30017/Sarah-Milov-E-cigarettes-tobacco-farmer

The author might be an assistant professor of history but her research skills are severely lacking. She has no idea how many small businesses are now invested in this industry, or that many of the new devices are now made by someone other than the Chinese. She also spouts the party line, including suppositioning that e-cigs should be regulated the same as NRTs. Highlights include the following quote.

"Today e-cigarettes are largely produced in China. There are no farmers or American factory workers whose livelihoods depend on the puffing public. But if the industry continues unregulated, the public health may again become beholden to a small handful of heartstring-pulling stakeholders who speak on behalf of an even smaller number of corporate executives."

Although there are a few good comments, this piece could use more. Sarah Milov needs to know that, not only would the health of millions of people suffer from her opinion, but there are far more families depending on the revenue generated by small e-cig businesses than there are bodegas in NYC.

 

[AegisPrime]

Something else Ms. Milov fails to mention is that there's many, many American e-liquid companies creating their own liquids using USP-grade PG/VG and nicotine - I can't see why a massive uptake in vaping shouldn't benefit those US tobacco farmers since all that nicotine has to come from somewhere - and I'm sure brands like Johnson Creek and Halo, that already trade on their 'all-American' products would jump at the chance to offer products derived from quality American tobacco.

 

[Uma]

Most of the vendors are MICRO businesses, even smaller than Small business clout.
The micro & small businesses are the only businesses supporting our country anymore. The rest have been regulated out of business already. We need our vapor shops!

 

[clg2dc84]

We need MORE vape shops. All my juice is made in the US. Anything I ordered from outside the US, I'm STILL waiting for. Everything else I'm enjoying.
The farmers will still be able to sell. The end product produces the same thing, just in a different form that is helping people to breath better.